Insight into the HR World
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This week, the government will release federal unemployment numbers. From all indications, it is not going to be good news. Here in Oregon, we are at nearly 10% unemployment and other areas are even worse. There is a lot of gloom and doom going around and it isn’t pretty. We’ve all become numb to news [...]
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You all know a person like this.
He’s the guy that has to get his way when it comes to…well, anything. Big or small. Everyone at work agrees they are hungry and they like the idea of the Italian joint down the street. This guy is saying things like:
“Pasta makes me super drowsy in the afternoons…”
“You [...]
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Are you a firefighter, police office, rescue worker, doctor or road maintenance worker? Well first of all, thank you for doing an extremely important job during one of the toughest times of year. Second of all, this post isn’t about you.
For anyone else, read on!
There are some nasty storms moving across the country right now [...]
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Are you searching for a blog topic? Looking for something that is timely and relevant?
Why don’t you write about the economy? Nobody is doing it (heh) and really we need more people telling us what’s going right, wrong and how we’re (not) fixing it. Even more, we really need more people who have no idea [...]
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So I was watching the NFL opening weekend and annoying my wife by not taking it off of football coverage the entire day. It was a terrible weekend for sports in case you were wondering. First of all, my alma mater Washington State University suffered the most humiliating defeat ever (66-3). Then the Seahawks lost [...]
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I like occasionally going through my statistics and figuring out how people get to my site. But when I saw a Google search on “boss sleeping on the job” pointing to my site though, I thought it might be fun as a Friday post to go over the ten most ridiculous search terms that brought [...]
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The Happy Employee made a post about the new book about Results-Only Work Environment and mentioned that absolutely zero HR bloggers had mentioned it. Count me as one of those people who are unsurprised by this revelation.
I know that this is a hard thing to swallow from someone who has very much advocated ROWE in [...]
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While you are enjoying your patriotism fueled short week (at least in the US and Canada), here are a few networking resources to make your life easier. I am just a *tiny* bit biased about these but you’re just going to have to deal with it!
RecruitingBlogs.com – With almost 10,000 members, it has been [...]
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I hate to break it to you but your blog sucks. In other words, the reason you aren’t getting readers is because I know the answers and you do not. Even the most popular blogs on the internet aren’t getting it done because they suck too. I don’t know what the people who are reading those popular blogs are thinking. Perhaps they are insane.
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Recently, many businesses are putting a lot of emphasis on online social networking. This is a great way for employees to stay connected and move up within their industry. Likewise, employers can improve customer retention and worker morale by adopting Web 2.0 as a company norm. More CEOs are starting blogs than ever before and sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter can make a person’s career. Or break it.
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